†A single note / rings on and on and on… is from The Cure’s ‘All Cats Are Grey’

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"This poem was written in a single bed on hotel notepaper after leaving two dear friends' havan. The Cure's 'The Holy Hour' was repeating in headphones."

Stuart Barnes’s poetry has appeared widely in publications such as Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry,Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Regime Magazine, and The Warwick Review, and is represented in the anthologies Short and Twisted 2010, The Night Road and Time with the Sky (Newcastle Poetry Prize 2009 and 2010, respectively), and fourWtwenty-three, twenty-fourand twenty-five. He is poetry editor of Tincture Journal, co-poetry reader for Verity La, and a poetry, flash reader for One Throne Magazine. In 2014 he was named Runner-up for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and co-judged the ACT Publishing Awards’ poetry category.